Mechanism Design papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Mechanism Design went from 140 papers in 2023 to 426 in 2026, roughly 3.0x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Mechanism Design work: 394 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 5 in 2023 to 42 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Games and Planning, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Classical Planning, is up 3.3x versus 3.0x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Generalized Tikhonov Layer for Interpretable-by-design Graph Neural Networks
• ICML 2026Affine-Scaled Attention: Towards Flexible and Stable Transformer Attention
• ICLR 2026Bayesian Attention Mechanism: A Probabilistic Framework for Positional Encoding and Context Length Extrapolation
• CVPR 2026FEAT Fashion Editing and Try-On from Any Design
• NeurIPS 2025A Closer Look at Graph Transformers: Cross-Aggregation and Beyond
• ICML 2025Benign Overfitting in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
• ICLR 2025AdaManip: Adaptive Articulated Object Manipulation Environments and Policy Learning
• CVPR 2025A Selective Re-learning Mechanism for Hyperspectral Fusion Imaging
• NeurIPS 2024AFBench: A Large-scale Benchmark for Airfoil Design
• ICML 2024CarbonNovo: Joint Design of Protein Structure and Sequence Using a Unified Energy-based Model
• ICLR 2024Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experiments
• CVPR 2024InceptionNeXt: When Inception Meets ConvNeXt
• NeurIPS 2023An Optimal and Scalable Matrix Mechanism for Noisy Marginals under Convex Loss Functions
• ICML 2023AbODE: Ab initio antibody design using conjoined ODEs
• ICLR 2023Conditional Antibody Design as 3D Equivariant Graph Translation
• CVPR 2023Exploring the Relationship Between Architectural Design and Adversarially Robust Generalization
• NeurIPS 2026A Unified Framework for Uniform-Price Resource Allocation Mechanisms
• ICML 2026Anatomy of Massive Activations and Attention Sinks
• ICLR 2026How Muon’s Spectral Design Benefits Generalization: A Study on Imbalanced Data
• CVPR 2026Parallax to Align Them All An OmniParallax Attention Mechanism for

All Mechanism Design papers

128 papers, page 3 of 3

101. ICML 2026RTInfer: Real-Time Inference of Multiple DNNs on Edge GPUs
102. ICML 2026RulePlanner: All-in-One Reinforcement Learner for Unifying Design Rules in 3D Floorplanning
103. ICML 2026Selling Data as a Digital Good with Scaling Valuations
104. ICML 2026SiameseNorm: Breaking the Barrier to Reconciling Pre/Post-Norm
105. ICML 2026SlideSparse: Fast and Flexible (2N-2):2N Structured Sparsity
106. ICML 2026Softplus Attention with Re-weighting Boosts Length Extrapolation in Large Language Models
107. ICML 2026Sparser Block-Sparse Attention via Token Permutation
108. ICML 2026Spherical SO(3) Equivariant Local Attention
109. ICML 2026SpikeNet: Sparse Spike-Driven Mask Vector Transformer for Energy-Efficient and Stable Spiking Point Cloud Processing
110. ICML 2026Stability-Aware Feature Design for Robust Watermark Detection in Machine-Generated Text
111. ICML 2026Steering Large Language Models through the DMTA Cycle: Structure-Based Drug Design via Knowledge-Driven Bi-Level Thompson Sampling
112. ICML 2026Stop Training for the Worst: Progressive Unmasking Accelerates Masked Diffusion Training
113. ICML 2026SwitchCraft: A Programmatic Framework for Designing State-Switching Proteins
114. ICML 2026Test-Time Training with KV Binding Is Secretly Linear Attention
115. ICML 2026The Geometric Origin of Grokking: Accelerating Generalization via Active Structural Reorganization
116. ICML 2026The Role of Target Update Frequencies in Q-Learning
117. ICML 2026Towards Docking-oriented De Novo Ligand Design via Gradient Inversion
118. ICML 2026Towards Understanding Massive Activations in Attention Sink Mechanism
119. ICML 2026TRACE: Trajectory Recovery for Continuous Mechanism Evolution in Causal Representation Learning
120. ICML 2026Tractable Expected Information Gains for Exponential Family Posteriors
121. ICML 2026Transformers with RL or SFT Provably Learn Sparse Boolean Functions, But Differently
122. ICML 2026Tucker Attention: A generalization of approximate attention mechanisms
123. ICML 2026Universal Approximation with Softmax Attention
124. ICML 2026Universal Representation of Generalized Convex Functions and their Gradients
125. ICML 2026Unveiling the Role of Data Uncertainty in Tabular Deep Learning
126. ICML 2026Welfare-Optimal Classification with Accuracy Auctions
127. ICML 2026WildCat: Near-Linear Attention in Theory and Practice
128. ICML 2026You Need Better Attention Priors

FAQ

How many Mechanism Design papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

1,037 in total: 140 in 2023, 200 in 2024, 271 in 2025, 426 in 2026.

How many Mechanism Design papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 175 Mechanism Design papers, versus 108 the year before.

How many Mechanism Design papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 65 Mechanism Design papers, versus 58 the year before.

How many Mechanism Design papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 128 Mechanism Design papers, versus 65 the year before.

How many Mechanism Design papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 58 Mechanism Design papers, versus 40 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Mechanism Design papers?

NeurIPS, with 394 papers from 2023 to 2026.